The following article by Dan Balz was posted on the Washington Post website February 28, 2018:
President Trump set a record for White House staff turnover in the first year. Here’s an ongoing list of staff who have quit or been fired under Trump. (Joyce Koh/Washington Post)
President Trump promised many things as a candidate in 2016. He would drain the swamp. He would appoint only the best people. He would be a dealmaker par excellence. After 13 months in office, he has yet to truly make good on those pledges.
The president said that his business skills and outsider status would allow him to make the changes he argued that the nation’s capital needed — and that many of his supporters saw as necessary. His tenure has underscored that running a business, especially a family business, is far different from running a government. Continue reading “The Trump White House is a place where turmoil never ends”